It’s Sunday evening, it’s late – it can mean only one thing – time for the PWTM.
If there’s an abiding theme in the cgaa blogosphere this week, it’s ‘environment’, with all years engaging in ‘world making’ of one sort or another. As the first years move into the penultimate week of Unit 2/Space, exciting glimpses of their ‘worlds apart’ are filtering through.
Lyn-Dae - the girl with the feathers in her hair - has a breakthrough on the moon, while Andriana fuses Caligari and Van Gogh's Starry Night and takes a bold step toward stylisation. I disagree with Domantas - his 'horrible thumbnails' are anything but; they are energetic, dynamic and speculative - all that a good thumbnail should be. Elsewhere, Max moves away from realism toward something more illustrative for this early concept piece for his re-imagining of The Lost World and Dayle's pipeline delights with fauvist pen and acrylic experiments and a knack for the fantastical. Paul-Arthur trips the light fantastic, and Jono hits his stride as he approaches Haggard's Hall of the Dead.
Lots of sensual life-drawing this week, as charcoal loosened lines and softened shapes - though Nat appears to have taken things too far...
Second years are similarly in the business of giving life to new worlds, as their Retrofest studio projects move further into production. Ruben gives us another view of future London, Simon at Lucid Studios offers us a glimpse of a martian landscape, Sam at Creature Studios previews his sinister woodland, and over at Void Studios, they're producing matte paintings to combine with modeled sets. Convincing cg worlds are composed of their individual components and attention to detail is essential; consider Kled's cute car model, Inspire Studio's parking meter, and Gremlin Box's derelict church.
In 3rd year Tom's Garden of Earthly Delights, Bosch's canvas-bound fantasias are brought to sumptuous cg life and his 'cast of thousands' are given their marching orders. Zack's protagonist, Castus makes it to the turnaround stage and Raj - though weary - perseveres with his latest animatic in which he fine tunes his pace, sound and ambience.
Meanwhile, in other news, it would appear as if those rumours about students being a bunch of apathetic, de-politicised numpties are unfounded; click here for some peaceful, but no less heartfelt protest!
And finally - Happy Birthday Ruben!
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